From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:54:04 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days? In-Reply-To: <1506386563.59c9a2834015a@www.paradise.net.nz> References: <20170923091704.GD10152@darioniedermann.it> <20170924140617.GG28606@mcvoy.com> <20170924203621.GA80203@wopr> <49B7FCB8-A086-4FFB-AF3B-4B3BD167EC54@bitblocks.com> <1506297783.59c847b740373@www.paradise.net.nz> <1506386563.59c9a2834015a@www.paradise.net.nz> Message-ID: Wesley Parish wrote: > Quoting Tony Finch : > > Wesley Parish wrote: > > > > > I once thought of developing a computer where everything from the core > > > functions to the peripherals was a network node. In effect replacing the > > > bus. I found references to a Cambridge U (UK) computer system that > > > purported to do just that but couldn't find any more info on it. > > > > The Desk Area Network, perhaps? > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/dan.html > > Yes. I thought it made a lot of sense. There was an earlier project too, from the 1980s, based on microprocessor distributed around the Cambridge fast ring: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/projects/archive/plana/ Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode Shannon, Rockall: South 6 to gale 8, perhaps severe gale 9 later in Rockall. Rough or very rough. Rain or showers. Good, occasionally poor.